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| Pakistan government offers last-minute deal but fails to avert protest |
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| By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's civilian government failed on Tuesday to persuade opposition leader Imran Khan to ditch plans to march on the capital in protest against alleged ballot rigging in last year's general election. Khan, a cricketer-turned-reformist politician who wants the government to resign and new elections to be held, plans to lead the mass demonstration from the eastern city of Lahore to the capital Islamabad on Thursday. Fearing chaos, the government has banned the demonstration, but with a showdown looming, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that Supreme Court judges would investigate Khan's accusations. "Before the judicial commission sits down to begin its work, Nawaz Sharif has to resign." Khan's uncompromising stance is likely to unnerve the ruling party. |
| U.S. ready to help new Iraq leader, Iran welcomes choice |
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 By Michael Georgy and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. Haider al-Abadi still faces opposition closer to home, where his Shi'ite party colleague Nuri al-Maliki has refused to step aside after eight years as premier that have alienated Iraq's once dominant Sunni minority and irked Washington and Tehran. A statement from Maliki's office said he met senior security officials and army and police commanders to urge them "not to interfere in the political crisis". At least 17 people were killed in two car bombings in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad - a kind of attack that has become increasingly routine in recent months.
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| WHO hopes for more Ebola drug doses, vaccine progress by end of year |
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 By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - World Health Organization experts fighting the world's worst outbreak of Ebola hope for improved supplies of experimental treatments and progress with a vaccine by the end of the year. After ruling on Tuesday that it is ethical to offer unproven Ebola drugs to people infected or at risk in West Africa, the challenge is to secure enough doses to make a difference in an outbreak that has already claimed more than 1,000 lives. An experimental drug called ZMapp from U.S. firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical appears to have had "a dramatic and very rapid effect" in the case of two U.S. doctors, WHO assistant director-general Marie-Paule Kieny told reporters. One of the deadliest diseases known to man, Ebola kills the vast majority of those infected.
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| Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor conned out of $500,000 prize -authorities |
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| Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor was swindled out of a prize worth about $500,000 by a general contractor who befriended him while working on the house next door to Taylor's in New York City, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Noel Muir of Uniondale on New York's Long Island, was awaiting arraignment on a charge of grand larceny in Brooklyn's criminal court on Tuesday morning, and could not be reached for comment. Taylor, who is known for his improvisational, percussive style at the keyboard, was awarded a prestigious Kyoto Prize by Japan's Inamori Foundation in 2013 and was invited to Japan to collect his prize at a ceremony last November. Noel Muir, a contractor who had done work for Taylor's neighbor, came with him, according to a statement by the district attorney in Brooklyn. |
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